Is this really a Game?!

Reign and the others spent some time in the forest before returning to the territory, the monsters in the forest posed no threat to them, even a field boss would decide to go around them or retreat after sensing their powerful mana. As it was late in the night most of the people inside the city were sleeping, Reign and the others were able to get to their building without any trouble, their current appearance was not really good as the fight against the boss and then the horde of monsters really did a number on them.

Their armors were battered up and even ripped at some places, they were going to visit Adrian tomorrow to get it fixed, the elves could probably do it as well but Reign and the others had found out that Adrian's skill was above that of the elves, as he was someone that the system had summoned to help out. The elves on the other hand received no such help, they were the ones that arrived on Earth either voluntarily or because they simply had no other choice.

Since Earth was the planet being forced to undertake the game the system of course helped out, the safe zones and the many people summoned here were meant to help them, of course even with the help it wasn't certain that they would manage to win the game, even surviving was going to be a challenge as most people probably weren't able to find a safe zone in the beginning.

Just after hearing what had happened to New York made them certain that the death toll was incredibly high, the whole city became a giant area where monsters freely roamed, you could find monsters ranging from low to high-level ones everywhere. So far Shadow's father had only managed to find 3 safe zones, most of the people in the huge city had died from the monsters and the survivors were doing anything they could to survive.

Some were lucky enough to stumble upon smaller safe zones, similar to the one Adam found in the beginning while others survived by staying in their apartments after luckily not being spotted by monsters that were nearby. Shadow's father also told them that the strongest monster he had seen was level 50, and that was just a normal monster in a group that was active in the city, the center probably had even stronger ones.

Reign and the others felt their bodies going cold after finding that information out, their hometown had become a hell where normal people could die at any moment, and even players that had leveled up a couple of times were in danger at every step. Only then were they able to find out how lucky they had been, their university was turned into a safe zone before being transformed into a castle with many strong guards that kept people safe. The guardian that they had seen in the beginning was gone as there was no need for it to stay here after Eldar came, it was only there temporarily as stronger monsters had the power to actually go inside the safe zone.

The party went to bed right after taking a shower in the building, they had no idea how the showers worked as Reign had simply purchased them for the building via the territory system, they could deduce however that there was probably a magic formation in the building that was used to activate the lights, showers and everything else.

Even the people in the city could use the territory system, albeit with limits, they were only able to purchase things for their houses and that was it.

…

"I'm leaving." Vajra suddenly stands up as he glances at the screen in front of him. The screen showed the building where Reign and the others currently resided, the two of them were not perverts who would spy on the party while they were in their rooms, even gods valued privacy to an extent.

"I should probably do the same, I have something exciting waiting for me at the old dragon's place." The white-robed Reign says as he stands up as well. He and Vajra slowly go down the stairs of the castle before exiting it, even though they had been holed up in the castle for a long time, nobody dared to disturb them.

Upon exiting the castle the two found that there was a visitor that humbly waited for them to exit, to be more specific the visitor was waiting for the white-robed man. Upon seeing them the visitor, alongside Aioel and the others, all bowed down to the two.

"Your Majesty Raziel, I have come under the orders of the patriarch." The visitor humbly says as he presents the white-robed man with a parchment. Raziel takes it and reads the contents before smiling. ( AN: I simply like the name and Legacy of Kain, the name doesn't have any connection with it or any gods. )

"Excellent, let's go," Raziel tells the visitor. He was known in the universe as Raziel the Immortal One and was hailed as one of the oldest and strongest beings that existed. The number of people that knew his true name was incredibly low and they dared not tell it to others as he had ordered a long time ago, nobody knew why he was so secretive about his true name but they all swore to keep it a secret as nobody wanted to incur his wrath. Soon they would find out why he wanted his name to be a secret, however.

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"Yaaawwnn." Reign wakes up in his bead and rubs his eyes. The battle yesterday was fierce and he slept a lot longer than usual, all of them did. It was already 1 pm and they all had a meal together before going to Adrian who was cursing them after seeing the state of their armors.

The old blacksmith of course fixed the armors in a matter of minutes before telling them to take better care of it, in his head however he was shocked, what kind of monsters were these guys fighting, this was not the first time they had come to him for repairs and as a Master Blacksmith, he knew how hard it was to deal so much damage to rank B armors.

Reign went to find Jack next, he was excited to show him his new skill, all the things that happened yesterday made it impossible to do so as Jack and he were busy with the elves. There was of course the matter with the challenge and other things that occupied him as well, but finally, today he was finally going to show him his skill and learn the second sword.

[ Severing Light and Darkness ]

It was still hard for Reign to use the skill, usually, he would only use it as a last resort against powerful monsters like the Behemoth and the Dullahan as it took all of his concentration to activate it, not to mention the huge mana cost and physical toll the skill had on his body.

Upon seeing the skill Jack nodded affirmatively at Reign who punched the air in happiness, however, Jack's thoughts were in chaos upon seeing the sight.

"1 month, it only took him a month!!!"

"I spent half a year before achieving it, not to mention that I had a lucky encounter back then, I guess this is how Master's other students felt after I managed to achieve it."

Jack's master was a peak level Transcendent that had about 100 students, Jack was the one with the highest talent and he managed to overshadow all of the other students. Now he was looking at a genius many times greater than himself, he shed a tear inside as he was finally able to feel what his brothers and sisters back at his master's place felt.

"Alright, now look carefully, this is the Second Sword of the Severing series." Jack holds the sheath of his sword as he positions it horizontally. He puts his hand a millimeter above the handle before closing his eyes for a brief moment.

"Severing, Second Sword," Jack whispers the name before clutching the sword and swinging it from the sheath. He and Reign were currently underneath the castle in a huge open area, Jack was using the area to demonstrate the move as he would otherwise cause a lot of destruction outside.

There was only a hair-thin sword light that Reign was able to see for a moment before there was a sound of something being cut at the end of the underground arena. Reign immediately ran there as he inspected the wall of the arena, he had previously used all of his powers and was surprised to find out that he couldn't even scratch the floor or walls.

Reign's eyes grew wide as he was able to see a thin cut on the walls, the cut was perfect and looked like it was there ever since the walls were built.

"This is what you will be able to achieve after perfecting the Second Sword, focusing all of your mana to make a cut that was as thin as a strand of hair." Jack tells Reign from behind before going back and leaning against the wall, "Let's start."